Comment by brnt

Mean, mode, median; they're all summaries. People even in science-adjacent fields are still often used to communicating a summary without showing the dsitribution. If possible, I always ask for both mean and median; it's an indication how off-normal the distribution is.

The mean only has meaning for normal distribution, so it's my least favorite summary, because it assumes the most. Imho the normal dist is assumed way too often.